After two months of investigation, the public prosecutor of Bulgaria’s Dupnitsa region concluded that arsonists who gutted the car of award-winning investigative journalist Lidia Pavlova were persons unknown, and closed the probe. Pavlova’s family car was set on fire on May 25 in the town of Dupnitsa, where she resides. The incident marked the second […]

A former officer of the Russian Navy, Grigory Pasko is the founding editor of Ecology and Law, a quarterly magazine on environmental and citizens’ rights, and currently the director of the Foundation for Investigative Journalism – Foundation 19/29 (Russia). Pasko, who worked as an investigative journalist for the Russian Pacific Fleet’s newspaper, was arrested in […]

As Enrique Peña Nieto prepares to assume the Mexican presidency, his public focus has been on scaling back the drug cartel-related violence in the country. Meanwhile, at least four incidents involving journalists being assaulted, abducted, threatened, or arrested have occurred since Mexico’s July 1 election, continuing the nation’s abysmal record of protecting its journalists and […]

An Al Jazeera correspondent has reportedly been wounded in Syria and transferred to Turkey for medical treatment, while a Turkish photojournalist was reportedly shot in the foot. Both journalists were injured while covering clashes in Aleppo, the commercial capital of Syria, which has witnessed brutal fighting in recent days. Al Jazeera cameraman Hakan Bayginer told […]